Telescopic sight for cannon



(No Model.)

V. BERBERICH. TELESGOPIG SIGHT POR GANNONS.

110. 484,285-, .Patented ont. 11, 1892.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VALENTINE BERBERICH, OF FRANKEORT, KENTUCKY.

TELESCOPIC SIGHT FiOR CANNON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484.285, dated October 11, 1892.

Application iiled February 29, 1892. Serial No. 423,177. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, VALENTINE BERBERICH, of Frankfort, in the county of Franklin and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sights, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in sights for cannon and rifles; and it consists in the novel constructions and combinations of parts hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view, Fig. 2 a top view, and Fig. 3 afront end View,

y of my improvement, Figs. 2 and 3 representing it in connection with a part of a cannon.

The telescope A is provided with lenses of sufficient power to see from one to ten miles for cannon of the largest size, from one-half to three miles for iield-guns, and from one hundred yards to one mile for rifles. The telescope is also provided with a screw l, whereby it may be expanded or contracted. The frame or support includes a base B, having standards 4, provided with bearings l2 for the trunnions 1lv of the telescope, and shoulders 13, fitting against said bearings, as shown. The frame is further provided with a slotted arc 2, which by the aid of clamp-nut 3 serves to retain the telescope in any desired adjustment. A scale or sight bar 8 is supported by the frame in the range of the telescope and has its pointed top formed to serve as the front sight. This sight 8 has degrees marked upon it and is preferably adjustable up and down through a slot 7 in the base B, a caselike boX 9 being dropped from said base to steady the said sight and keep it perpendicular and a set-screw 10 serving to hold the sight 8 in any suitable adjustment. The instrument, except the telescope, maybe made of hard metal, such as steel or iron. Vihere desired, the arc 2 maybe graduated similarly to the sight 8 to permit an accurate adjustment of the telescope to any desired angle to the horizontal.

In practice the sight-instrument is supported alongside of the gun and conveniently detachable therefrom, so it can be taken off after sighting to prevent injury tothe instrument by the vibrations. To this end I provide the frame with perforated portions 5,

formed to slide on the rods 6, projecting laterally from the gun and so arranged that the instrument will be parallel with the bore of the gun.

In operation first slide the instrument onto the bars 6 6. Then adjust the telescope perfectly level and parallel with the bore of the gun and set the front sight 8 with its upper point even with the center of the lens of the telescope. This will give the point-blank range. To lire above point-blank, lower the scope adjusiably supported thereon, and av sight supported by said frame in the range of the telescope and adjustable independently of the telescope, substantially asset forth.

2. A gun-sight comprising a frame, a telescope, and a sight supported independently of the telescope and located in the range thereof, substantially as setforth.

3. In a gun-sight,the combination of a telescope adjustably supported, means for securing said telescope in any desired adjustment, a sight adjustably supported in the range of` said telescope, and means for securing such sight in any desired adjustment, substantially as set forth.

4t. In a gun-sight, the combination, with a suitable support, of a telescope, asight in the range of said telescope, and a su pport or frame for said telescope and sight independently of the gun, substantially as set forth,

5. In a telescopic gun-sight, substantially as described, the telescope-supporting frame provided with a plurality of lateral openings adapted to receive rods projected from the side of the gun, whereby the sight may be conveniently applied to and removed from the gun, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

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6. The combination of the gun, the rods, 6, the telescope journaled to the standards 4, projecting laterally from the gun, and the means for securing said telescope in any deframe or support provided with the telescope sired adjustment to the aro 2, and the sightr and sight and having openings to slide on bar 8, adjustable in the slot 7, all substan- 5 Said rods 6, whereby the frame may be aptially as and for the purposes set forth.

plied to and removed from the Hun substan- Y ,dany as Set forth. b VALENTINE BERBERICH.

7. A11 improved sighting-instrument con- Witnesses:

sisting of the frame having its base provided LOUIS WEITZEL,

1o with slot 7 and with standards 4 and are 2, JAMES W. LANE. 

